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A 1950s Cornish branch reborn!

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THE Bodmin & Wenford Railway turned the clock back to the 1950s when it held its May 25/26 Branch Line Gala, its first such event since before the Covid-19 pandemic.

In action over a weekend blessed by superb weather were consecutive-numbered GWR prairies: home-based No. 5552, which in BR days was shedded at Truro, and Pete Waterman's No. 5553, which had been

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